KOOH Sports, a Mumbai-based sports education startup, has launched an NSDC programme called Kites for physical education teachers and sports coaches, aiming to train up to 50,000 individuals in the next 10 years.

It will focus on improving sports training opportunities for children from two to 18.

“We recognised a dearth of employment opportunities in the vocational sports training sector in both rural and urban India,“ said Chirag Patel, CEO of KOOH Sports.

Besides this, children don't even receive quality training. There is an extreme need in tier-II, III and IV cities...We have created a structured age-specific training programme.“

It expects existing school employees, independent coaches, former athletes and PE teachers to sign up for training.

The length of training depends on the sports, ranging from taekwondo to cricket. There will be various levels of progression, with rates from Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000.